Author: Richard PearsonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244155100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM
Author: Richard PearsonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244155100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Harvard Historical Studies
Author: A Bibliography of British Municipal History
Author: Charles GrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
A History of the English People ...
Author: Elie HalévyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Development of Transportation in Modern England
Author: William T. JackmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Power in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Richard Leslie HillsPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
British Drama of the Industrial Revolution
Author: Frederick BurwickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131635265X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Between the advent of the French Revolution and the short-lived success of the Chartist Movement, overworked and underpaid labourers struggled to achieve solidarity and collective bargaining. That history has been told in numerous accounts of the age, but never before has it been told in terms of the theatre of the period. To understand the play lists of a theatre, it is crucial to examine the community which that theatre serves. In the labouring-class communities of London and the provinces, the performances were adapted to suit the local audiences, whether weavers, or miners, or field workers. Examining the conditions and characteristics of representative provincial theatres from the 1790s to 1830s, Frederick Burwick argues that the meaning of a play changes with every change in the performance location. As contributing factors in that change, Burwick attends to local political and cultural circumstances as well as to theatrical activities and developments elsewhere.
The Real Oliver Twist
Author: John WallerPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1840464704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.
Jane Austen's England
Author: Roy AdkinsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most cherished of all novelists in the English language, incomparable in the wit, warmth, and insight with which she depicts her characters and life. Yet the milieu Austen presents is only one aspect of the England in which she lived, a time of war, unrest, and dramatic changes in the country’s physical and social landscape. Jane Austen’s England offers a fascinating new view of the great novelist’s time, in a wide-ranging and richly detailed social history of English culture. As in their bestselling book Nelson’s Trafalgar, Roy and Lesley Adkins have drawn upon a wide array of contemporary sources to chart the daily lives of both the gentry and the commoners, providing a vivid cultural snapshot of not only how people worked and played, but how they struggled to survive.
Author: John Blackner